1. Architectures

1.1. x86

Support Supervisor Mode Execution Protection. It prevents the CPU in kernel-mode to jump to an executable page that has the user flag set in the PTE. This prevents the kernel from executing user-space code accidentally or maliciously, so it for example prevents kernel exploits from jumping to specially prepared user-mode shell code (commit)

pmbus: Add support for Analog Devices ADM1275 (commit), add support for TI UCD9200 series of PWM System Controllers (commit), support for TI UCD90xxx series Sequencer and System Health Controllers (commit)